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By the spelling alone I doubt it's Irish is because it violates the Irish "slender for slender, broad for broad" spelling convention. Of course there are the rare exceptions, and this convention is even less strict in Scots Gaelic, but in both cases where the Greek "eco-" would be adopted, normally Gaelic orthography would be expected to reign. So for example, "ecology" is rendered in Irish as eiceolaíocht.

Perhaps "eco" is a phonetic rendering? This is where Audrey could help us.

By the spelling alone I doubt it's Irish is because it violates the Irish "slender for slender, broad for broad" spelling convention. Of course there are the rare exceptions, and this convention is even less strict in Scots Gaelic, but in both cases where the Greek "eco-" would be adopted, normally Gaelic orthography would be expected to reign. So for example, "ecology" is rendered in Irish as eiceolaíocht.

Perhaps "eco" is a phonetic rendering? This is where Audrey could help us.

i see the cinese word first "回声"，means “The echo”。

so i use GOOGLE translate 回声 or “The echo” to irish gealic， google give me the word“eco”

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Which is, indeed, the En->Ir translation that Google Translate returns.

Google Cn->Ir (using the characters that Cai provided) returns "Echo" (not "Eco"). This is an error, and probably a gap in the lexicon with a pass-through default (i.e. if the word is not found, you get the literal).

Which is, indeed, the En->Ir translation that Google Translate returns.

Google Cn->Ir (using the characters that Cai provided) returns "Echo" (not "Eco"). This is an error, and probably a gap in the lexicon with a pass-through default (i.e. if the word is not found, you get the literal).

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By the way, this is a prime opportunity to remind everyone of this forum's rules (top of the page, for everyone to see): This forum is not a translation service. Of course we can offer occasional translations for members who have already been here a while, as in this case, but bear in mind that ultimately there are better websites for that.

In Cai's case, we already are all dealing with translating Chinese to English, English to Chinese, apparently now even English to English, and if that weren't enough, when we get those cleared up we ("we" meaning those who really know, and that doesn't mean those like me who know maybe a word or two) will be translating all that even further to Irish, if it is rationally possible. So there is some work to do. In the meantime, this being the Irish Language Forum, let us honor its topicality as much as possible and do our best to avoid going too far in pursuing the finer points of the Chinese language for their own sake. That subject is better suited for the Pub, or for PMs, as the case may be.

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